Karnataka: Tusker stranded in dam brought out on outskirts of Bengaluru

Unable to walk with its broken leg, the elephant has spent much of its time in the last few weeks floating around in the backwaters of Manchanabele Dam, around 35 km from Bengaluru.

2 min readBengaluruOct 22, 2016 03:18 AM IST First published on: Oct 22, 2016 at 03:18 AM IST

A 45-year-old male elephant, which was stuck in a dam on the outskirts of Bengaluru for over 50 days with a fractured leg, was on Friday brought out of the dam. The tusker fractured its right leg after falling in a ditch near Dodderi village in early September while traversing a migratory path between Banerghatta National Park and the Savandurga forest.

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Unable to walk with its broken leg, the elephant has spent much of its time in the last few weeks floating around in the backwaters of Manchanabele Dam, around 35 km from Bengaluru. Experts from Assam and Kerala had to be called to help treat the elephant.